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title: When the bewildered woman reached her dwelling, she mounted a pony a… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: When the bewildered woman reached her dwelling, she mounted a pony and rode swiftly across the rolling land. Who acts: bewildered woman, toss. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 144

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When the bewildered woman reached her dwelling, she mounted a pony and rode swiftly across the rolling land.

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**Who acts:** bewildered woman, toss · **What happens:** bewilder, reach, dwell, mount, ride, roll · **To what, where:** toss, pony, rolling land

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bewildered woman, toss), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:8:144
# text = When the bewildered woman reached her dwelling, she mounted a pony and rode swiftly across the rolling land.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	bewildered	bewilder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	pony	pony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	across	across	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bewilder** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the bewildered woman | toss |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **dwell** | gerund | the bewildered woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mount** | past | toss | a pony |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pony=Patient |
| 5 | **ride** | past | toss *not said here* |  |  | the rolling land |  | swiftly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across land=Trajectory |
| 6 | **roll** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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